Vouchers at the ready for best of books 2024

Readers looking to use up some of those book vouchers collected over the Christmas will be spoiled for choice this year, as Michael Moynihan lists some goodies for 2024

Jan Carson will release 'Quickly, While They Still Have Horses',  a book of short stories in April

Serpent’S Tail have some good ones in the pipeline — novel Night Swimmers by Roisin Maguire and You Spin Me Round, a collection of essays on music with contributions by the likes of Ciaran Carson, Brian Dillon and Wendy Erskine (edited by Adrian Duncan, Niamh Dunphy, Nathan O’Donnell) are both out in February.

New Island publishes Seaborne by Nuala O’Connor in April, a novel ranging from Kinsale to South Carolina to Jamaica, while the following month Lilliput will issue Ravelling by Estelle Birdy, a novel set in Dublin’s Liberties.